Nayah — #6495 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Nayah

The Social Security Administration has registered 610 babies named Nayah between 1995 and 2024, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nayah currently holds the #6495 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 33 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nayah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 256 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Nayah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 68 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Nayah in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nayah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 610 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.